Microscopic mass murderer.

• Autores: Carrie Arnold
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 311, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 16-17
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses a study by geochemist Dan Rothman and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published in the April 2014 issue of "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA" which names the methane-producing single-cell organism Methanosarcina as the reason for the extinction of 90 percent of the planet's species during the Permian period. The researchers believes that nickel deposited by volcanic eruptions allowed Methanosarcina to flourish.